A new, international bestseller by the author of The Alchemist tells the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer . . ." A chance meeting in Rio takes her to Geneva, where she dreams of finding fame and fortune. Instead, she ends up working as a prostitute.
In Geneva, Maria drifts further and further away from love as she develops a fascination with sex. Eventually, Maria's despairing view of love is put to the test when she meets a handsome young painter. In this odyssey of self-discovery, Maria has to choose between pursuing a path of darkness, sexual pleasure for its own sake, or risking everything to find her own "inner light" and the possibility of sacred sex, sex in the context of love.
In this gripping and daring new novel, Paulo Coelho sensitively explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons and embrace our own "inner light."
Eleven minutes is about something that the grown-ups have their unconscious, sub-conscious and conscious minds riveted to almost all the time (research proves that!) and the not-so-grown-ups are hell-bound curious about. The word has broken all the records – be it as the most searched string on the internet space, the most sought after topic in literature or the single factor that could put the BO on fire when it comes to movies and entertainment. You guessed it right, the word is SEX. Yet, despite of it being always on our mind, how much do we really know about it - Is there anything more to it than mere momentary physical pleasure (biology)? How much of it is psychological and spiritual? Can the words ‘making-love’ and ‘sex’ be used interchangeably? And above all, what is the permissible height of sacrifices (if there’s any) one should make to realize ones ambitions? These are some of the questions dealt with in the book.
Anyone interested in reading the novel can mail me at smartworks2009@gmail.com
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